Over the summer, YIMBY brought you renderings of the planned nine-story, 175-key Hoxton Hotel at 97 Wythe Avenue, in northern Williamsburg, and now excavation is well underway, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports. Sydell Group is developing the 59,910 square-foot hotel, which will feature restaurants on the second floor and the roof. Perkins Eastman is designing the building.
Brooklyn-based Sand Castle Building has filed applications for a five-story, five-unit residential building at 525 Leonard Street, in southern Greenpoint, a block away from the Nassau Avenue stop on the G train. The structure will measure 5,022 square feet in total, which means units will measure 1,004 square feet apiece. Two units will span across the first two levels, and three full-floor units will take up the remaining upper floors. Midtown South-based Issac & Stern Architects is the architect of record. An existing two-story house must first be demolished.
Late in 2014, YIMBY reported on the ground breaking of Journal Squared’s first residential tower, located right around the corner from the Journal Square PATH station, in northwestern Jersey City. On Wednesday, Kushner Real Estate Group topped out the 53-story, 538-unit building, which stands 563 feet above street level, according to the Jersey Journal. Façade work is also now underway, and completion of the tower is expected in 2016. Once completed, Journal Squared will boast three towers and 1,838 residential units, along with 36,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space. The second tower to rise will stand 70 stories and the final tower will top out at 60 stories. HWKN is the design architect, while Handel Architects is serving as the architect of record.
Cogswell Realty has filed exploratory plans for a 45-unit mixed-use redevelopment of the former Streit’s Matzo Factory, at 148-154 Rivington Street, on the Lower East Side, DNAinfo reports. Plans of the mixed-use project surfaced over the summer, and in October, the developer filed permits to demolish the upper five floors of the six-story structure at 150 Rivington. Filings indicate further demolition work will occur. The redeveloped structure would boast condominium units, a single retail unit, and 26 storage units. Permits have not yet been officially filed with the Department of Buildings.
Nehalhumar Gandhi, doing business as a New Jersey-based LLC, has filed applications for a four-story, 67-key hotel at 646 Gerard Avenue, in the Concourse, located three blocks north of the 149 Street – Grand Concourse stop on the 2, 4, and 5 trains. The project will measure 18,556 square feet in total, and hotel rooms will average 277 square feet apiece. Guests will have access to traditional hotel amenities on the ground and cellar level, and they will also be conveniently located a few blocks south of Yankee Stadium. Flushing-based Michael Kang is the architect of record. A single-story commercial building was filed for demolition this past October.
